From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Sep 3 15:17:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from guppy.pond.net (guppy.pond.net [205.240.25.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB657151F9 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 15:17:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmp@aracnet.com) Received: from aracnet.com (snapuser2-89.pacificcrest.net [216.36.34.89]) by guppy.pond.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA26311; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 15:15:57 -0700 (PDT) From: dmp@aracnet.com Message-ID: <37D048E7.E67956F2@aracnet.com> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 15:17:11 -0700 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Heiko Recktenwald Cc: Michael Rothenberg , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HW requirements References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Heiko Recktenwald wrote: > On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 dmp@aracnet.com wrote: > > Michael Rothenberg wrote: > > > I have asked my company cohorts to bring in all their unused computer > > > equip. I plan on making a BSD only box out of all the junk I collect. I > > > No less than 8MB. > > > And a big swap partition. > > I had a 486 with 16 MB Ram and only 10 MB swap (my first experimental > system, one 125 MB IDE drive, everything into /, it works). Sometimes the > screen gets many colors, system stops and reboots by itself (how perfect). > This could be circumvented by other 16 MB Ram. So there seems to be some > need for memory, besides the old rule, that swap should be twice as large > as RAM (and a little bit more). Yes, for a normal workstation. But Michael's building a gateway. NAT, xntpd, ipfw/ipfilter, and DNS don't need much. The only hardware capacity issue you really have to concern yourself with is having sufficient network hardware and processing power to handle a saturated internet link. Other than that, a few steps to fix potential security problems and DoS vulnerabilities and you're good to go. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message